Released in 2014, Nocturnes and Dances CD was a premiere for the Romanian guitar world: presenting a repertoire which has been recorded for the first time in our country, the music of Bach’s Dances and Britten and Takemitsu’s Nocturnes comes together in a recording which shows the musician’s passion for different idioms, Costin Soare being one of the very few Romania guitarist concerned with playing and promoting contemporary music.

Exoticism, subtle nuances, primary emotions – these are outstanding characteristics of the music on the CD Twenty Shades of Music. Oscillating between Latin America and the Balkans, the program offers everything these antipodes have in common: the taste for the folk spirit, old and new, cosmopolite and pure, melancholic and vibrant, rich in archetypes and with vital breath, but also the unique mix between joy and sadness, gathered for generations of tumultuous history, mirrored in the intense expression of tragedy with melody and dance triumphing over it.